Porno Subito - Print About Me

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PrintAboutMe is a project promoting contemporary, alternative
and independent graphic work based in Turin, Italy. The project is
curated by Beatrice Zanelli (Arteco), Paolo Berra screenprinting studio,
Mattia Macchieraldo (Ohne Titel Press), Moisi Guga and VAN DER
gallery, where the project has its exhibition space.
The project came into existence through collaboration between young
artists, printers and curators. In 2011 they created an international
competition aiming to promote creativity and printing techniques including screen-printing, engraving, printing, letterpress, woodcut and
lithography. In May 2012, PrintAboutMe started its publishing programme Micro-Press and published the first edition of Ménage à Trois,
an artist’s residency focused on creating graphic art using an artist, a
printer and a video-maker.
During this 3 years of activity Print About Me handled over 2000
prints, we edited, produced and printed 10 artist books for an overall
run of 1392 copies. We travelled to 19 different cities in Italy and Europe where we participated to fairs, shows and festivals.
Paperback
Leporello
Cards
Poster
Produced during Ménage à trois
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Paolo Berra
DI NATURA STUPIDA
2011
23 x 16,5 cm
39 pages
ed. 100 copies
Five colours screenprint on 170 gr grey and
brown Fedrigoni Woodstock
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Paolo Berra (Savigliano 1984, living and working in Turin) is a graphic
designer, artist and printer. He specializes in screenprint and he runs his own
artists studio (formerly shared with Elisa
Talentino with whom he founded the
project Inamorarti). He’s also the official
printer of Print About Me.
Di Natura Stupida contains 15 short
tales from Scritti Letterari by Leonardo
da Vinci and a corresponding number
of illustrations by Paolo. The theme is
human life and the prerogative of humans to consider themselves superior
to nature. In Leonardo’s tales, Nature
acts like a human being and gets ruined
by envy, malice, jealousy, racism, pride,
foolishness.These feelings do not occur in
nature.
In the book the the images are deliberately placed in the exact centre of the
page in order to reaffirm the idea of human (in the case the artist) superiority
over nature. The binding is open to view
and suggests a sense of incompleteness
that detaches Di Natura Stupida from
classic glossy editions.
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Philip Giordano
THE DAY I BECAME A WOMAN
2012
20 x 15 cm (180 cm wide open)
22 pages
ed. 70 copies
3 colors screenprint on Cordenons Schedografia 400gr
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Philip Giordano (Savona 1980.
Lives and works in Tokyo) is an Italian
illustrator. He creates magazines, book
covers, toys, children’ s books and animation. His style is influenced by Japanese
illustration and his shapes and lines
recall a kind of oriental minimalism.
He works with a broad range of media
(acrylic colours, graphite, markers) and
techniques (collage, digital painting,
drawing on wood boards).
The Day I Became a Woman depicts a
transformation and also the circle of life.
In order to reflect the circular narrative,
book is in the shape of a concertina (a
pop-up book that looks like an accordion)
that enables the reader to flip through
the pages merging the start and the end
of a never ending story.
Philip’s picture books have been translated in many countries, including Japan,
France, Brazil, United Kingdom, China,
Spain, Portugal. His work has been selected to appear in the American Illustration Annual 2012. In 2009 he won the
“International Award For Illustration” at
the Bologna Childrens Book Fair.
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Miss Goffetown
PORNO SUBITO
2012
20 x 15 cm (180 cm wide open)
22 pages
ed. 72 copies
3 colors screenprint on Cordenons Schedografia 400gr
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Porno Subito is a strip of sketches,
created with the technique of monotyping
and later reproduced in screenprint, that
the young Milan-based artist draws while
watching erotic movies. Whereas on the
screen pornography is repetitive, boring
and trivial in Fulvia’s drawings there’s a
lot of fun and joy. It’s not porn any more,
it’s sex. All voyeurism is gone. Grey on a
clay-coloured bottom, these figures remind
of the elegant silhouettes of old Greek
vases.
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Anna Guazzotti
DELL’INQUIETUDINE BOTANICA
2012
23 x 15 cm (120 cm wide open)
10 pages
ed. 60 copies
3 colors screenprint on Cordenons Schedografia 400gr
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About Nature’s Uneasiness – Nine
possible nervous germinations illustrates nine stories of hybridisation. The
main pattern of the book by Anna Guazzotti (1987 Pinerolo. Lives and works in
Turin) is the dissection of a branch. Over
the growths’ ring of a three, animals and
humans develops new grafts.
Readable either as ecologist asseveration
or, on the other and, as celebration of the
inventiveness of nature, About Nature’s
Uneasiness is, in any case, a book of
great depth.
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Daniele Catalli
DEL LAVORO & DELLA MORTE
2012
15 x 9 cm
14 cards
ed. 100 copies
3 colours screenprint on 1,8 mm Paudice
Nereo Cardboard
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13 cards for the 13 most dangerous
professions in the EU. Shaped like tarots
cards and influenced by the medieval iconology of the danse macabre, Del lavoro
& Della morte ties many issues together:
the safe and security at work practices,
the inequity of occupational fatalities,
the prevention as a way to avoid tragic
events, the role of fate in our lives. As
video installation Del lavoro & Della
morte was screend in the theatre piece
Paradoxa by Portage (watch video http://
vimeo.com/90010580).
Daniele Catalli aka Piri Piri (Rome 1979.
Lives and works in Turin) is an illustrator, graphic designer and set designer.
He collaborates with video artists, musicians, and stage directors. Besides his
artistic research, he uses many different
techniques working as free lance illustrator, designing gig posters, CDs and LPs,
music and theatre festivals. He’s among
the founders of the collective Exhibitioff.
His ongoing and itinerary project Dream
Circus (http://www.dreamcircusproject.
com) so far travelled to: Amsterdam,
Baarlo, Torino, Milan, Polverigi, Bologna,
Formia and many other cities in Italy.
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Daniele Catalli e Lucio Villani
24 SENZA TESTA
2013
25 x 17.5 cm
54 pages
ed. 250 copies
2 colours risoprint on 120 gr. Munchen
White, screenprinted cover on 300gr Paudice Nereo cardboard, red lens eyeglass
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Daniele Catalli and Lucio Villani
and are two illustrators who started
collaborating in the late Nineties when
they founded the illustration magazine
Krakatoa.
24 Senza Testa (24 headless) is their
first project completed together. Daniele
created the drawings and Lucio wrote
the verses that narrate the stories of 24
characters who share the same tragic
destiny: they were all decapitated. Many
of them are related to the royal families of France, England and Italy (Mary
Stuart, Anne Boleyn, Marie Antoniette,
Louis XVI, Beatrice Cenci, Corrado V).
Others are revolutionaries (Robespierre,
Danton, Orsini), saints (Saint John
the Baptist, Saint Barbara), warlords
(Walter Raleigh, Francesco Bussone), or
heretics (Pietro Carnesecchi). The illustrations may be seen with and without
the red lens eyeglass. Through the lens
the bichromy (red and blue) of the images disappear and the elimination of
the red lines brings out new figures and
scenarios. The heads of the characters
disappear first. Out of the blue (literally) symbols appear relating to the lives
of the personalities like the motto (en
ma fin git mon commencement) of Mary
Stuart, the drawing of Utopia (Thomas
More) , and the rose (Catherine Howard).
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Sophie Lécuyer
À MON SOUL DÉSIR
2013
24 x 17 cm (160 cm wide open)
14 pages
ed. 100 copies
5 colours screen print on 400 gr Cordenons
Schedografia
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Sophie Lecuyer (Epinal 1987, Lives
and works in Nancy) is a young French
artist who plays with all the printing
techniques (screenprinting, engraving,
monotype, lithography). Inspired by the
atmosphere of tales, her imaginary is
populated by wild animals and ‘strange’
girls. Her depictions do not represent
things straightforwardly but deploy ambiguity and ambiguous endings.
A Mon Seul Désir is a screenprinted book
drawn by Sophie and printed by Paolo
Berra during Menage a Trois, an art
residency promoted by Print About Me.
The book takes its inspiration and title
from a series of six medieval tapestries
that represent the story of the the Lady
and the Unicorn.
Sophie’s works have been exhibited in
Italy, France, Germany, Belgium and
United States.
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Wim Starkenburg
FACES
2013
22 x 22 cm (264 cm wide open)
22 pages
ed. 200 copies
1 color Handmade offset print on Cordenons Schedografia 400gr
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Faces is the summa of Wim Starkenburg’s (Gieterveen 1947. Lives and
works in Hoorn) work. Over the last 35
year he has been carrying on a double
artistic life: as assistant and executor of
Sol LeWitt’s works and, in his studio, as
artist with his own practice. This book
gathers togheter his work in dialogue
with LeWitt’s conceptualism.
FACES is a book of simple shades, that
focuses on how human beings perceive
their environment and, due to the complicated process of perception, they draw
a conclusions about the place they are in.
His works were exhibited in many shows
in museums and galleries in Holland,
France, Italy, Germany and Unites
States.
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Raffaele Cesano
GIRACOLORE
2013
21 x 15 cm
ed. 200 copies
scatola serigrafata ad un colore, bugiardino
a loporello stampa offset, motorino elettrico
1,5volt., pennarelli Carioca
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Giracolore is a color twister developed together with the toymaker Raffaele
Cesano. It delivers great results and
lots of creative, engaging play. Kids and
adults just switch it on to start the base
spinning, giving them complete control
over the creative process.
The Giracolore includes a spinning unit;
4 markers and 250 paper disks. (You
might want to save one of the disks to
use as a pattern to create additional ones
when they run out. Simply trace around
the outside and cut with a scissors or a
mat knife.)
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Elisa Talentino
LE JARDIN D’HIVER
2013
22 x 18 cm (180 cm wide open)
10 pages
ed. 250 copies
8 colours screenprint on 285 gr Fedrigoni
Woodstock
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The winter garden is a place where
plants continue to bloom even when it is
freezing outside, it is a reclining cocoon
where there is space for the contemplation of beauty torn to the rigors of time.
It is the shelter where the charm of the
bloom is not ephemeral and the hours
run according to unknown laws. The illustrations featured in the exhibition and
within PrintAboutMe’s limited edition
hand printed book are freely inspired
by the seventh chapter of “Hopscotch”, a
masterpiece by Julio Cortázar, an Argentine writer, poet and literary critic.
As in a winter garden, and seemingly to
the plot of Cortazar’s roman, the artist
book by Elisa Talentino is a twine of bodies and plants caught in a neverendless
blossoming. Stems, flowers, branches,
seeds and roots sprouting from feminine
bodies in a tangle of ethereal femininity
and fertility.
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Veronica Azzinari
IMMUTABILE
2014
23,5 x 122,5 cm
ed. 100 copies
7 colors acquaforte and ceramolle on
Hanemuhele Naturale 150 gr. Sceenprinted cover on Fedrigoni Materica
Pitch 360gr - Hand binded
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“An etching is immutable. Everything that modified the initially blank
printing plate leaves its mark on the
paper. You can track errors, hesitations,
regrets. This is what make etching [an
etching o etchings] unique and very similar to human life. I don’t want my prints
to be perfect I want them to tell about
every aspect of life even bad ones” says
Veronica Azzinari (1987 Milano. Lives
and works in Urbino).
In her works the human body is connected with mother nature though icons
made up by the artist and don’t belong to
any particular belief or religion. At the
same time,they are very influenced by
the old tradition of alchemy and by the
symbology of pagan rituals and prehistoric art.
Immutabili depicts a human body as in
the Holy Shroud, a linen that is believed
by some to be the burial shroud of Jesus
of Nazareth, and that since XVI Century
is preserved in the Cathedral of Turin,
the city where the book was printed. On
the front side, the symbols recall the life
of nature and the flow of waters, whereas
the back is related to earth, air and time.
MOSTRE
Books and prints by PrintAboutMe where exhibited at:
Crossroads, LP Project, New York (USA);
Intersecciones , Sociedad de Escritores de Chile, Santiago (Chile);
Salon für Kustbuch, Wien (Austria);
Ilustrarte, Museu de la Eletricidade, Lisbon (Portugal);
Art Books Wanted show, B1-Centre for Contemporary Design, Prague
(Czech Republic);
Unfold, London Print Studio, London (UK);
Just look at Pictures I & II, Spazio Elastico, CSA Sisma, Bologna and
Macerata (Italy);
Visual Handjobs and Bookbuilder, MIAAO International Museum of
Applied Arts, Turin (Italy).
In May 2013, in the frame of the first edition of CHEAP – Street
Poster Art Festival, Print About Me curated the show Sarafumi held
at Spazio & in Bologna.
F I E R E E F E S T I VA L
PrintAboutMe partecipated at:
Stroke Art Fair 2014, Munich (Germany);
I Never Read art book fair 2013-2014;
Basel (Switzerland); Monstre festival 2013;
Geneve (Switzerland);
Set up contemporary art fair 2013-2014, Bologna (Italy)
The Others Art Fair 2012-2013, Turin (Italy),
Micro Festival 2012-2013-2014, Milan and Turin (Italy);
Crack Festival 2012-2013-2014, Rome (Italy);
Farenheit 39 2013-2014 Ravenna (Italy);
Fruit Exhibition 2013, Bologna (Italy);
Inchiostro Festival, Alessandria (Italy);
KunStart Art Fair 2012, Bolzano (Italy);
PREMI
In January 2014 Le Jardin d’Hiver by Elisa Talentino was selected for
the final show of Ilustrarte held at Museu de la Eletricidade in Lisbon (Portugal). In November 2013 PrintAboutMe was awarded with
the Rolling Stone Award at The Others Art Fair. In June of the same
year, Porno Subito by Fulvia Monguzzi won the Honorable Mention
at the ART BOOKS WANTED award, a prize and itinerary exhibition
organized by Edition Lidu (Czech Republic).
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Beatrice Zanelli
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Stefano Riba
www.vandergallery.com
Paolo Berra
www.berrapaolo.it
Mattia Macchieraldo
www.ohnetitelpress.com
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www.moisiguga.com
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